The numbers were nothing to write home about, but ABC won another college football weekend.
Clemson-Virginia Tech earned a 2.7 rating and 4.6 million viewers on ABC’s Saturday Night Football last weekend, down 51% in ratings and 50% in viewership from Louisville-Clemson last year (5.5, 9.3M) and down 40% in both measures from Notre Dame-Clemson in 2015 (4.5, 7.6M).
The Tigers’ win was the top college football game of the weekend on any network, marking the fourth time in five weeks this season that ABC’s Saturday night series has topped the charts. The only exception was week three, when ABC ranked second behind the SEC on CBS.
With that said, it was also ABC’s lowest rated and least-watched Saturday night game all season, and the first to decline from last year.
Earlier in the day, Florida State-Wake Forest drew a 1.9 (-56%) and 2.9 million (-58%) and Northwestern-Wisconsin had a 1.9 (-25%) and 2.8 million (-25%).
Including streaming viewership on WatchESPN, Clemson-Virginia Tech had 4.7 million viewers, FSU-Wake Forest had 3.0 million, and Northwestern-Wisconsin had 2.9 million.
[Wknd. numbers from ESPN, ShowBuzz Daily 10.4]
